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title: At the sight of all this gold the hearts of the old people were glad… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At the sight of all this gold the hearts of the old people were glad, and once more they blessed their faithful dog. Who acts: hearts, people. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 32

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At the sight of all this gold the hearts of the old people were glad, and once more they blessed their faithful dog.

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**Who acts:** hearts, people · **What happens:** be, bless, sight · **To what, where:** sight, faithful dog, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg641:18:32
# text = At the sight of all this gold the hearts of the old people were glad, and once more they blessed their faithful dog.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	19	advmod	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hearts of the old people |  |  | the sight of all gold |  | glad *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bless** | past | people | people's faithful dog |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | all gold |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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